June 09, 2005
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In an ongoing series of posts designed to support anti-dhimmitude as well as give concrete examples of 'good gay', The Jawa Report presents the following from 'good gay' goddess Angelina Jolie via the Imperial Minister of Pop Culture studies Ghost of a Flea. Warning: Extremely PG-13 material follows. more...
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I think he's sorta cute.
Still, the fact that the Marines detained the men for some time does indicate that they were, at the very least, royally pissed at getting shot at by Americans. more...
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Reports also indicate that officials are backing off of earlier claims on the specificity of targets. Yesterday, an affidavit used to obtain the arrest warrant noted that potential targets included "hospitals and large food stores". The amended affidavit makes no such claim. Further, the FBI is backing off of the claim as to the location of the terrorist training camp and that photos of high-ranking US officials including President Bush were used for target practice.
Yesterday a number of pundits, including myself, questioned whether the fact that the US had intelligence reports indicating the location of jihadi training camps was evidence that Pakistan was being less than 100% cooperative in the Global War on Terror. Could pressure from the State Department, hoping to avoid a potential diplomatic fiasco with Pakistan, have forces the change?
Among the changes was the charge that one of the training camps was near Rawalpindi. Because Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani military, it would be difficult to believe that the Pakistani military was not complicit in the camps.
I'm going to cross post this update here and in include it in my post from yesterday here. That earlier post will serve as an archive on this case.Fox News:
Five men, including two father and son pairs, have now been arrested as federal law enforcement officers try to determine whether they have uncovered a network of Al Qaeda (search) supporters in Northern California.California Mafia seems to have noticed this last night as well as other late-night West Coasters.Father and son Umer and Hamid Hayat were arrested over the weekend in Lodi, Calif., on criminal charges. Three Pakistani citizens are also being held on immigration violations. Lodi is an agricultural community 40 miles south of Sacramento.
Two law enforcement sources have confirmed to FOX News that there is a connection between the Hayats and the Pakistani citizens....
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents also have arrested Mohammed Adil Khan, Shabbir Ahmed and Khan's 19-year-old son, Mohammad Hassan Adil, for immigration violations. All three are citizens of Pakistan and Khan is affiliated with the Farooqia Islamic Center near Lodi, Calif. Ahmed is a citizen of Pakistan who currently functions as the Imam of the Lodi mosque.
Those three men are expected to eventually appear before an immigration judge.
An FBI affidavit says Hamid Hayat first denied any link to terror camps, but then told agents he attended an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan for six months.
A law enforcement source confirmed to FOX News that search warrants have been executed at two mosques, homes of the Hayats, as well as that of the Lodi Muslim Mosque's imam. The case is now described as "ongoing investigation by the JTTF," the joint terrorism task force. FOX News was told that the connection between the Hayat's and Khan Ahmed "is more than just a meeting, there are many connections, here and possibly Pakistan."
Annika reports from CA: "The late local news on at least two of the tv stations here in Sacramento was very irritating. They seem much more concerned about the possibility of anti-muslim "hate-crimes" than they are about the possibility that some terrorists might have been PLANNING TO BLOW UP HOSPITALS AND SUPERMARKETS!
The media are on the side of the enemy. (That means you KCRA and News 10.)"
UPDATE: Evan Kohlmann has video of a jihadi training camp in Pakistan here.
UPDATE PM: From the Lodi News Sentinel:
One of two Lodi men suspected of having ties to an al-Qaida terrorist camp was once accused of attempted kidnapping in a case that ultimately led to a misdemeanor conviction and an order to attend anger management classes.Umer Hayat, 47, was arrested in 2001 for allegedly assaulting two children. Hayat and his 22-year-old son, Hamid Hayat, are now behind bars, accused of lying to federal agents who were questioning them about their links to terror training camps in Pakistan.
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June 08, 2005
[UPDATE: You can view the video online here (with thanks to Shawn at Bare Knuckle Politics for uploading it) or you can download the entire video here (a little inconvenient becase of the wait time for free members, but the quality is better).
I had seen this story earlier at Jihad Watch, but didn't see the video until Michelle Malkin linked it. Michelle says "jump", I say "how high?" Also, you might want to follow her e-mail advice. Anyway, after seeing the video I'm disgusted. Since I know some people don't actually click the video links, I went ahead and took some screen shots of the video. If ever there was a clear 'fighting words' defense for assault, here it is.
Rob at Say Anything on the irony of it all (yes, this is true irony since words are being intentionally misused):
You know what I find amazing? The fact that the protesters are shouting about injustices done to Islamic people by the Americans, yet one of them about halfway through the video gets on the microphone and talks about how Islam is going to take over the world.UPDATE: Thanks to Wunderkraut for pointing to this post by Jay Tea over at Wizbang. He makes a good point about our reaction to flag desecration vs. the childish actions of Muslims over Koran abuse. However, he is way off the mark in the rest of the post. As a loyal follower of the Commissar (who advocates vigorous debate amongst ourselves), I must stand up and point out that my right-wing friend at Wizbang makes a serious logical error.
No freedom or liberty can be understood as anything but ordered and contextual. What this means is that what is thought of as a liberty in one context must be weighed against other liberties, and that sometimes these acts may be even considered criminal. From the Schenck (1919) case, for insance, comes the famous (if not discredited) example that people generally have the liberty to say whatever they wish, but they cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. The context of the theater changes the permissible action of shouting fire.
War also changes the context. We are in a war with jihadi inspired terrorists. In the context of war, embedded in the further context of a community which may have at least some minor percentage of those that are sympathetic to the cause, then advocating for the cause of the enemy ceases to be protected speech. In fact, this is a classic example of of the exception carved out in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): "Freedoms of speech and press do not permit a State to forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action"
I would argue that the word imminent ought to be dropped from the legal rule set up in Brandenburg. If 9/11 has taught us anything it is that terrorist acts may take years of planning. It has also taught us that our freedoms and liberties may be used against us in order to destroy those very liberties.
So, do I want flag desecration to be forbidden? No, of course not. What I do want is for incitement to take up arms against the US to be forbidden when the US is in a shooting war. more...
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Here is a press release from Task Force Freedom as published by the Stryker Brigades in Northern Iraq: more...
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they are less the French Resistance and more representative of the German Resistance -- the Werewolves who launched attacks, post WWII, against Americans and other Germans.Both she and Glenn Reynolds point us to this Washington Post article on the connection of Salaafists in Syria to the jihad in Iraq. Very informative in that it makes clear that Wahabism is just a small subset of Salaafism, and it is Salaafism which is the bigger problem, that the 'insurgency' is just part of a larger global jihad set on restoring the global caliphate, and that at least some segment of the Syrian military has aligned their interests with the jihadis: more...In addition, much of the Iraq insurgency doesn't even involve Iraqis, but a myriad of Islamists from well outside Iraq's borders.
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What's wrong with this picture? When WWII was declared the overwhelming response of the German community was to condemn en masse the Nazi front of the German Bund. Even though Japanese Americans were treated far more poorly than the Germans, the response from that community was to enlist in the Army in an effort to prove their loyalty to the nation and ease the oversuspicious among us.
How does the Muslim community respond to any and every indictment against suspected terrorists? By screaming intimidation and ethnic profiling.
Via the California Mafia we learn that two indictments have been handed down in the Lodi al Qaeda ring and how the Muslim community responds to finding out about the traitors living among them. Sacramento Bee (subscription):
Two Lodi men accused by the government of connections to terrorist training in Pakistan were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Sacramento.Of course, if you've seen the Hayets' lawyer on TV he is quick to remind you that his clients were not indicted on terrorism charges, but on charges of lying. Which is technically true if not utter nonsense and sophistry since they are charged with lying about their ties to terrorism. I have yet to hear a reporter challenge their lawyer on this.
Humid Hayat is charged with two counts of making a false statement to FBI agents, and his father, Umer Hayat, is charged with one count of making a false statement to FBI agents.The indictment says Hamid Hayat was lying when he denied being with any type of terrorist organization and denied attending any type of terrorist training camp.
The indictment says Umer Hayat was lying when he denied having any first-hand knowledge of terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
And which two groups are filing the complaint? Come on....do I really have to even say?
Also on Thursday, a coalition of Muslim civil rights groups and other organizations announced they were filing complaints of "intimidating tactics" against the FBI along with a formal request for records of its investigation into possible terrorist connections in Lodi....More at California Mafia.The tactics involve denial of medical treatment, threats of arrest or deportation to coerce people, and denied access to legal representation, said Basim Elkarra of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley.
"This must be done in the way that respects people's rights," said Mark Schlosberg of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
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[UPDATE 6/09 AM: Fifth suspect arrested, more arrests expected in Lodi. Go the most recent post here, the Main Page, or scroll down for latest information. This post will be updated as more information is gathered and will serve as an archive for the al Qaeda cell in Lodi.]
Whoa, this puts a whole new spin on that CCR song. Four men have been arrested in Lodi California, two on suspicion of aiding al Qaeda and two on immigration violation charges. One of the most worrisome aspects of this story is that the two arrested on immigration charges were in the process of starting a religious school. Guess which religion?
I have a feeling when they say 'immigration charges' that the specifics of the charges will be 'lying about ties to al Qaeda training centers in Pakistan or Afghanistan'.
I'll have more on this later, I'm sure. [UPDATE: I'm surfing the sphere and not seeing much on this. What gives? Has the arrest of another Muslim in America with ties to radicalism become so commonplace that it is no longer 'news'? Another Update: Story seems to be picking up steam. If you have info on this case, please e-mail me]
Here's what a local paper has to say about the arrests. Tracy Press:
Federal authorities have arrested two men and detained two others who they believe are linked to an al-Qaida terror cell in Lodi, The Sacramento Bee reported on its Web site Tuesday night.One of the suspects has already confessed. Fox News:Hamid Hayat, 22, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47, were arrested over the weekend on charges of lying to federal agents, and both made a brief appearance in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on Tuesday, FBI special agent John Cauthen confirmed to The Associated Press. The two men, who are both U.S. citizens, are being held in Sacramento County Jail.
Hamid Hayat is accused in a federal complaint of training in an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan to learn “how to kill Americans,” and then lying to FBI agents about it.
His training included explosives and weapons instruction and using photographs of President Bush as targets, court documents indicate.
Umer Hayat, a Lodi ice cream truck driver, is charged in the complaint with lying about his sonÂ’s involvement and his own financing of the terror camp.
Both men made brief initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter A. Nowinski. Both are being held in Sacramento County Jail pending further court proceedings.
Two other men were detained over the weekend for questioning, area residents said Tuesday. The men were identified by one source as Muhammed Adil Khan and Shabbir Ahmed, and are being held on immigration violations.
The two were believed to be working to open a religious school in Lodi to teach young Muslims. Both were detained after they met separately with Umer Hayat in the predawn hours Saturday.
Neither man was arrested on any criminal charges, according to Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Kice would not disclose where Ahmed and Khan are being jailed. Sacramento County Jail records indicated a Shabbir Ahmed was in custody. No record of Khan could be found.
Ahmed is the imam and Khan is the former imam of a mosque in Lodi.
Khan represented the Lodi Muslim Mosque for three years as imam, equivalent to the Christian term “pastor.” Khan’s former role at the mosque is not clear. Mohammad Shoaib, who took over as mosque president in November 2003, said he fired Khan in January. Others at the mosque claim that Khan was never the imam in the first place.
Khan is now the leader in the effort to build the Farooqia Islamic Center, including a school for children up to fourth grade, south of Lodi on Lower Sacramento Road.
Ahmed has been imam of the Lodi mosque since Khan left the mosque leadership.
FBI agents descended on a house next door to the Lodi Muslim Mosque about a day after two of LodiÂ’s top Muslim leaders were arrested.
“It’s unfortunate,” Nasim Khan, former mosque president, said after hearing about the arrests. “These are guys who’ve been doing good work in the community.”
On Tuesday, FBI agents searched AhmedÂ’s house on Poplar Street, next door to the Lodi mosque, and another house on the 300 block of Acacia Street, about four blocks from the mosque.
According to an FBI affidavit, Hamid Hayat first denied any link to terror camps, but then told agents he attended an Al Qaeda camp in 2003 and 2004.The California Mafia is blogging locally. This is what they have to say:"Hamid advised that he specifically requested to come to the United States to carry out his jihadi mission," according to the affidavit. "Potential targets for attack would include hospitals and large food stores."
From the local news, we find out, "Shabbir Ahmed, imam of the Lodi Muslim Mosque, and Mohammad Adil Khan were arrested either late Sunday or early Monday morning". The two reports seem to conflict about charges against these two, one says no charges the other says immigration violations. But, according to the Bee, they met with the young Hayat before being arrested.Check out the Sacremento Bee story [registration] on how the Pakistani community is simultaneously shocked & cooperating with authorites but already complaining about 'civil rights violations' and refusing to cooperate with authorites. First:
"The Muslim community in Lodi supports any efforts to find people who are trying to hurt us or destroy the United States," he said. "People have been living here for 80 to 90 years, and we've always cooperated with local law enforcement authorities and will continue to do so."But then:
Some of those questioned by FBI agents say their civil rights have been violated. Zafar Mohammad Khan, 19, said he is Hamid Hayat's cousin and was at a local grocery store Monday with Hayat's younger brother and an uncle when four FBI agents began questioning them. "These guys were following us everywhere," Zafar Khan said.This despite the fact that the man's cousin has already confessed to being an al Qaeda agent!!!Because, you know, he couldn't be guilty because he's a Muslim and no good Muslim could ever be tied to al Qaeda.He said he refused to answer the agents' questions. But he told The Bee that the FBI sweep "was all because of a stupid phone call someone made against the Hayat family. Hamid told me someone called the FBI to make up a story because they have something against him."
And of course CAIR just wouldn't be CAIR if they didn't come to the defense of every single terrorist arrested in America:
Basim Elkarra, executive director of the Sacramento Valley chapter of CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), said Khan was one of several local Muslim leaders who previously met with the FBI to discuss security issues. "They've got nothing on those guys," Elkarra said. "This has happened before - if they don't like them, they'll get them on immigration violations. We will fight to make sure that everyone's civil liberties are upheld."The Farooqia Islamic Center, which lists Muhammed Adil Khan as the President has a webpage here. From their 'Word from the President [Khan]' page:
United we can build our centers, masjids and schools everywhere.Scary thought. And what is the goal of the center:
The main goal of Farooqia Islamic Center is to spread the education of Quran and Sunnah.Fine, but who's interpretation of the Quran and Sunnah's? What is the Saudi connection to this (potential, it's still being built apparently) mosque, if any? What is the connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, if any?
Oh it gets worse, much worse. In June of 2002 the center sponsored a fundraiser and conference. Headlining the conference was Imam Siraj Wahaj:
'In a similar vein, CAIR board member Imam Siraj Wahaj calls for replacing the American government with a caliphate, and warns that America will crumble unless it "accepts the Islamic agenda." Wahaj, it should be noted, served as a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Muslim cleric convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.'And:
Siraj Wahaj, a member of CAIR’s Board of Advisors, was listed as a potential unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing case (List of unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators in United States versus Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel Rahman, Mary Jo White, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, February 2, 1995). He is the imam of the al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, where he provided a platform for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. He later served as a defense witness for the Sheik in the World Trade Center bombing trial. In September 1991, Wahaj stated the following:Another speaker at the conference was Imam Abdul Malik."…And he [Allah] declared ‘Whoever is at war with my friends, I declare war on them.’ Who is a friend of Allah? [He chants a passage in Arabic] Allah. Your true friend is Allah, the messenger, and those who believe. Americans and Canadians. Hear it well. Hear what I’m telling you well. The Americans are not your friends, hear what I’m telling you, hear it well. The Canadians are not your friends, hear what I’m telling you, hear it well. The Europeans are not your friends. Your friend is Allah, the Messenger and those who believe. These people will never be satisfied with you until you follow their religion. They will never be satisfied with you…"
Hillel students reported that speaker Imam Abdul Malik Ali, a spiritual leader at Oakland's Masjid Al-Islam mosque, urged the crowd of roughly 500 to 800 to 'stop calling them suicide bombers. When a person commits suicide, they are oppressed, without hope, depressed. Palestinian mothers are supporting their children who are suicide bombers, saying, 'Go honey, go!'
Michelle Malkin has links to stories on hospital and school based terror plots. UPDATE: Michelle also has a copy of the affidavit used to secure the arrest warrent in PDF format. Check this part out:
After a briefWhoa! So does this mean we have photos of Hamid at the terrorist camp or if we just have photos of the camp? Either way, I wonder along with Bill Kristol who said it earlier today on Fox News, if we know where these jihadi camps are in Pakistan then how come our allies haven't shut them down?? More:
interview with an FBI agent who showed Hamid some photographs, the polygraph examination was administered and and his answers to the relevant questions were found to be indicative of deception.
Hamid admitted that he attended a jihadist training camp in Pakistan for approximately 6 months in 2003-2004. Hamid stated that Al-Qaeda supports the camp and provides instructors for the camp. Hamid later confirmed this camp was run by Al-Qaeda. Hamid described the camp as providing structured paramilitary training, including weaponsTraitor, indeed. Bad enough, but look what else al Qaeda is teaching their devotees these days:
training, explosives training, interior room tactics, hand to hand combat, and strenuous exercise.....Hamid stated that during his weapons training, photos of various high ranking U.S. political figures, including President Bush, would be pasted onto their targets. Hamid further stated that he and others at the camp were being trained on how to kill Americans...
Hamid advised that he specifically requested to come to the United States to carry out his Jihadi mission. Potential targets for attack would include hospitals and large food stores.
Classroom instruction included ideological rhetoric detailing opposition towards the United States and other non-Muslim countries.And why did he want to become a jihadi? It couldn't have anything to do with Islam, could it??
Umer Hayat described Hamid Hayat as first being interested in attending a jihadi training camp during his early teenage years, and being influenced by a classmate, Sadr Yaqoob (phoenetic spelling), at the madrassah (religious school) Hamid attended in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Haven't we learned enough about Pakistani Madrasas to come to the conclusion that they are terrorist breeding ground?
But wait, there's more. It seems that jihadism runs in the family:
Another story of a quiet, good mannered, proclaim- himself-a-patriot Muslim immigrant. I'm serious, either the Muslim community begins to root out the jihadists themselves or we will be forced to assume the worst about them.
The madrassah was operated by Hamid Hayat's grandfather, and Umer Hayat's Father-in-law, Qazi Saeed Ur Rehman. According to Umer Hayat, Qazi Saeed Ur Rehman sends the students from this madrassah to jihadi training camps in Pakistan. After completing his education at the madrassah, Hamid Hayat went to the Tamal training camp near Rawalpindi, Pakistan, which is operated by Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Umer Hayat stated that Maulana Fazlur Rehman is a close personal friend of Saeed Ur Rehman, Umer Hayat's father-in-law.
If one good thing can come out of this it is that it seems at least two of the men arrested are now cooperating with the FBI. Each of these men seems to have some fair abount of knowledge of the jihadi network in Pakistan.
California Conservative chimes in with this:
In many ways, Lodi is the perfect location. ItÂ’s a very small town and out-of-the-way, yet close enough to major airports and big cities like San Francisco and Sacramento, CaliforniaÂ’s capitol.The Political Teen has a video of a live news conference by the leader of the Farooqia Islamic center. Any guesses on what he has to say? On the one hand he proclaims loyalty to America and its interests and then goes on to say how the two clerics could not be guilty of immigration violations. One interesting aspect of this story is that it seems that at least one of the suspects is being sued by the Lodi Muslim Mosque.On the other hand, itÂ’s the kind of place a terrorist would stick out. And, hopefully, that helped in uncovering the case here.
Evidently, one of those arrested had been using photographs of President Bush for target practice—virtually assuring himself of legal representation by the ACLU on First Amendment grounds.
Others: Charles Johnson, Chad Evans, Robert Spencer, Captain Ed (who thinks the men ought to be tried as traitors, agreed), The Pirate's Cove, Strata-Sphere, Fraternitas Vitae, Dread Pundit Bluto (taqqiyeh indeed), Rantingprofs, Ian at The Political Teen, Huffington Post, Abu David, Take Back The News, Bloggeldygook, Roughstock Journal, Stained Glass Soul, Clarity and Resolve, National Terror Alert, Synthstuff, Mover Mike, Daily Polemic, Hyscience, Uncooperative Blogger, Scared Monkeys, Imaginary Conversations,
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June 07, 2005
It was once called the Venice of the East and with imagination you can still see why: boats skim across lagoons, golden domes glint in sunshine, coffee shops abound in the old quarter.To accommodate the adrenalin-tourist, repairs to the gutted five-star Basra Sheraton are scheduled to commence this month. Tour planners suggest that visitors dye their hair and wear traditional robes to look like mid-Easterners.Stroll down the corniche at sunset and you can stop for a kebab and ice-cream, smoke a hubble-bubble, play chess and listen to the water lapping below. And then, if you are a westerner, you can check you have not been followed, adjust your disguise, and signal to your bodyguard that you want to return to the hotel.
Basra declared itself open to foreign visitors this week but instructed them to be vigilant, dress like locals and hire armed escorts. "Then there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance you will be OK," beamed Abdul Razuqi, the head of the tourism office in Iraq's second city.
Those odds are set to be tested if Iraqi Airways succeeds in running regular commercial flights between Basra and Heathrow, the first direct civilian air link between Iraq and the west. The airline plans to seek a slot at Heathrow within two months.
With the ever-present threats of kidnapping and assassination, Basra is surely a thrilling destination, however, tourists are cautioned that they will find the city's "museums gutted, theatres shut, streets reeking with rubbish and sewage and waterways littered with capsized vessels, including Saddam Hussein's yacht."
I think I'll pass. It sounds too much like Detroit.
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These guys are the real deal. To understand where there coming from, go check out the groups website here and surf around.
My favorite song? Integrity (first 2 minutes of song). The song is about a soldier charged with shooting a captured terrorist in cold blood. Let's just say these soldiers are a tad bit pissed off at the brass and liberals in Washington calling it murder.
How the fuck can you charge a soldier with doing anything but doing his job?Hell ya!
I don't think y'all understand what this is.
This is war and whether we'll ever see our loved ones again?And there's a lot of y'all out here who I could never forgive.
And I could never understand why y'all fuckers did what y'all did...But I could see through the smoke that's how I know you a bitch.
You shouldn't ever let none of that come through between your lips,
cause out here it's not murder, it's jus our desire to live.Cause you're all out here with your cape on, clueless and shit
Say you saw the whole thing and he aint have to do what he did.No, he aint have to go and kill him, he could have let him live
But you must have forgot how many people here will see you dead.And I don't care if he was handcuffed then shot in his head,
all I know is dead bodies can't fuck with me again.
You can listen to the first 2 minutes of each song at cdbaby here.
While I'm not sure the album is 'the event of a lifetime' as the group proclaims, it's a must listen to hear some soldiers perspective on the war in Iraq. This is not raw-raw propaganda, but presents the good, the bad, and the ugly. For instance, one of the songs questions why we're in Iraq when they really couldn't give a shit about the Iraqis. Another song, though, tells a liberal loved one back home to shut their cake-hole and stop questioning the war. Now that's honest confliction. more...
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The Oct. 31 conviction of Bilal Mansur al-Hiyari by the military State Security Court "fell short of adequate justifications and causes," the Court of Cassation said in the March 20 ruling.Hat tip: VladThe United States has accused al-Hiyari of financing al-Zarqawi, a fellow Jordanian who leads the most active insurgent group in Iraq. Washington said in April it would freeze any assets al-Hiyari may have in the United States and was asking U.N. members to do likewise.
The court demanded a retrial for al-Hiyari, who had already served his six-month jail sentence and has been released. He is believed to be in Jordan, but his whereabouts were not known Tuesday.
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Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. (Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.)Hat tip:Digger who got it from Just One Minute
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And the Sunnis in Iraq wonder why they are being 'picked on' by the government? The very fact that any politician has open lines of communications with a group that intentionally murders hundreds of civilians, sometimes by beheading them, makes my head spin. If this guy has any knowledge of who these terrorists are shouldn't he be reporting that to the authorities?
Below the story you will find a photo compilation of the crimes of this group. Warning: Graphic images of the 'insurgency' as it truly is. You may recall that the Islamic Army in Iraq is the group that murdered Italian hostage Enzo Baldoni. But their crimes do not end there.
The Mujahidin Army, on the other hand, is likely made up of Baathist remnants and nationalist Sunni forces, and might be reasoned with. These guys are more interested in political power than in setting up the next Taliban like state.
A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician has said that two insurgent groups are ready to disarm and begin talks with the Iraqi government.UPDATE: I wanted to let Joyner know a little bit more about these 'insurgents' that he might not be aware of. so I thought I'd ping him. This is not 'good news' if these guys reach a political compromise (even though Joyner remains skeptical of the veracity of the report) nor can they be compared to al Sadr's thugs who are choir boys by comparison. more...
Former minister Ayham al-Samarie said the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Mujahideen Army represented more than 50% of the resistance.He said he began contacting the groups' political leaders five months ago.
The Islamic Army has claimed responsibility for several attacks and for taking hostages.
It was not possible to independently verify Mr Samarie's claim and the government would not comment on the matter, the Associated Press news agency reports.
The disclosure follows reports last week that Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari had opened indirect channels of communication with some militant groups, urging them to lay down their weapons.
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Seriously, you can't make this shit up. Al Jazeera will show clips of infidels getting beheaded by 'resistance forces' but won't run ads from PETA calling into question the handling of sheep imported from Australia because those images are just too cruel.
WND:
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab television network famous for airing images of beheadings and mutilated bodies, rejected a 30-second commercial from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals showing abuse of Australian sheep.Now I hope you'll excuse me as I go break several federal laws. Cause if this isn't a case where medical marijuana is the cure for what ills me, I don't know what is! Hat tip: M.H. KingThe sheep, raised for wool, are later shipped alive to the Middle East for slaughter. The footage shows lambs partially skinned alive during a procedure called "mulesing." Sheep are repeatedly kicked as they are loaded onto what PETA calls "death ships." Other sheep are are shown being dragged and kicked in the head as their throats are slit while other sheep watch.
Others on the ironicalness of it all: QandO, Myopic Zeal, Say Anything
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Anyway it just goes to show that speaking ability is not a very good measure of intelligence. It is said that James Madison was a horrible speaker with a squeaky little voice. I take it we all can agree that Madison stands only next to Jefferson in terms of pure political genius?
Yes, George W. Bush is a horrible, horrible speaker, but even if Daddy Bush got him into Yale it was still Shrimp-Chub-Bush who managed to get out of Yale and then go on to Harvard for an MBA. Me? I just went to the local community college for awhile, then on to a small state college, before moving on to a large private university known primarily for their football team and toga parties. And I think we can all agree that I'm no genius despite my excellent speaking abilities. Oh, wait. None of you have heard me speak. *sigh* That'll have to wait for The Jawa Report podcast.
UPDATE: Apparently I'm the last blogger on earth to here about this. That's only because my wards keep me in a hermeutically sealed room in an ongoing experiment to test Schroedinger's 'jawa in box' experiment. Does Rusty really exist in such a state? Quantum physics says both yes and no at the same time, but I'm not so sure.
Anyway, Ace gave me a chuckle with this one, "Shockingly enough, one of Kerry's highest grades (and yet still not all that good) was in... French."
Oh, and The Ankle Biting Pundits manage to use the word tergiversations in a sentence, "Of course, during the campaign, his staff went the extra mile to say that his frequent tergiversations were due to his superior intellect. We can all have a good laugh now."
On a more serious note, Aylward chimes in, "Evidently the erudite persona Kerry has worked tirelessly over the years to create wouldn't allow him to acknowledge his own failures. He paid a hefty price for his stubbornness - the Presidency."
Michelle Malkin has a much more complete roundup, as I'm desperately needed elsewhere and don't have the time right now to see where this thing is going.
It looks like all you guys are going to have to take down your 'Sign the SF-180 Form' banners.
Llamas make me yip, orgle, and laugh!
UPDATE: Holy shit, Kos says something that is both reasonable and remarkably intelligent for once!! (well, a single sentence, but I'll take it) "Why the hell didn't he release these documents earlier?"
UPDATE II: Whoa. Check out what John O'Neil from the Swifties says to Matt Margolis about Kerry's less than forthcoming release of his records.
We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials. This is hardly what we called for. If he did execute a complete release of all records we could then answer questions such as (1)Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise); (2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese? (3)why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by Secretary Lehman who said he did not know of them; (4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry's Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letsos, and Kerry's Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances.more...
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In a storming article for Tech Central Station Frederick Turner, who would be the leading candidate for Philosopher Laureate of the United States, were there such an office, rains on the authors of the NYT story that revealed details of the private charters used by our intelligence services in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turner asks: "Why would they do it?" And concludes that they might not be quite human: more...
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